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Themis

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) the Titaness who was goddess of justice in ancient mythology.





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... the general attitude towards woman suggested by these superstitions I may quote a striking passage from Miss Jane Harrison's "Themis." "Woman to primitive man is a thing at once weak and magical, to be oppressed, yet feared. She is charged with powers of child-bearing denied to man, powers only half understood, forces of attraction, but also of danger and repulsion, forces that all over the world seem to fill him with ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles


Words linked to "Themis" :   Titaness, Greek mythology


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